Table of Contents: “…Drill, baby, drill : extraction ecologies, futurity, and the provincial realist novel -- "Mine-ridden" : Nostromo -- "The red deeps, where the buried joy seemed still to hover" : The Mill on the Floss -- "To teem with life" : Jane Rutherford : or, The Miner's Strike -- "Country of the old pits" : Hard Times -- "The habit of the mine" : Sons and Lovers -- Down and out : adventure narrative, extraction, and the resource frontier -- "A great neighbourhood for gold-mines" : Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands -- "A mine of suggestion" : Treasure Island -- "The secret stores of the empire" : Montezuma's Daughter -- "Trading, hunting, fighting, or mining" : King Solomon's Mines -- "To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land" : Heart of Darkness -- Worldbuilding meets terraforming : energy, extraction, and speculative fiction -- "Natural energetic agencies" : The Coming Race -- "We do not fight for a piece of diamond" : "Sultana's Dream" -- "A man from another planet" : News from Nowhere -- "Unpleasant creatures from below" : The Time Machine -- "Riddles in the dark" : The Hobbit.…”

Table of Contents: “…Drill, baby, drill : extraction ecologies, futurity, and the provincial realist novel -- "Mine-ridden" : Nostromo -- "The red deeps, where the buried joy seemed still to hover" : The Mill on the Floss -- "To teem with life" : Jane Rutherford : or, The Miner's Strike -- "Country of the old pits" : Hard Times -- "The habit of the mine" : Sons and Lovers -- Down and out : adventure narrative, extraction, and the resource frontier -- "A great neighbourhood for gold-mines" : Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands -- "A mine of suggestion" : Treasure Island -- "The secret stores of the empire" : Montezuma's Daughter -- "Trading, hunting, fighting, or mining" : King Solomon's Mines -- "To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land" : Heart of Darkness -- Worldbuilding meets terraforming : energy, extraction, and speculative fiction -- "Natural energetic agencies" : The Coming Race -- "We do not fight for a piece of diamond" : "Sultana's Dream" -- "A man from another planet" : News from Nowhere -- "Unpleasant creatures from below" : The Time Machine -- "Riddles in the dark" : The Hobbit.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Bodily invasions: gene trading and organ theft in Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson's speculative fiction / Rachel Stein -- Home everywhere and the injured body of the world: the subversive humor of Blue Vinyl / Arlene Plevin -- "Lo que quiero es tierra": longing and belonging in Cherríe Moraga's ecological vision / Priscilla Solis Ybarra -- Detecting toxic environments: gay mystery as environmental justice / Katie Hogan -- "The power is yours, planeteers!" …”
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Table of Contents: “…Self-Reflexivity, Intertextuality and Other Scary Terms: Postmodernism in Graphic Novels -- Old father, new artificer: teaching Alison Bechdel's Fun Home as postmodern literature / Jeffrey Roessner and Eithne Amos -- Author/character: Persepolis as a gateway to reading metafictional novels / Rhonda Knight -- Intertextual journeys: black culture, speculative fiction and the past as text in Jeremy Love's Bayou / Qiana Whitted -- Section VI. …”

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